Denia Cuesta, Alfonsa, Guillo, Maria Dolores
Labour status and involuntary employment: family ties and part-time work in Spain
DENIA, Alfonsa; GUILLÓ, M. Dolores. “Labour status and involuntary employment: family ties and part-time work in Spain”. Working Papers (Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas). WP-AD 2011-11
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/23702
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The aim of the paper is a gender analysis of the extent to which part-time work represents an individual’s preferred labor market situation. The work includes a theoretical model that delivers some predictions about the household’s preferences over non-chosen employment states. Furthermore, it explores the impact of individual, family and job related variables on the probabilities of involuntary and voluntary part-time employment in Spain. The main empirical findings of the paper are: first, the model is sensitive to the chosen definition of (voluntary) part-time employment; second, there exist important gender asymmetries in labour market behaviour concerning the importance of the individual’s education and family characteristics; third, the marital status and having small children are important determinants of a woman’s probability of being voluntary part-time employed, whereas having grown up children or a temporary contract increases significantly a woman’s probability of involuntary part-time employment.
Keywords:Part-time work, Involuntary employment, Family ties and labour supply
Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas
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